Robert Rodriguez is honored at the annual President’s Gala in 2009. He died from respiratory failure July 6. / file photo by Rafael Anguiano
Des Delgadillo
Staff Writer
A longtime fixture in La Verne’s public service sector, City Councilman Robert Rodriguez died July 6 from respiratory failure. He was 83 and in the middle of his eighth term on the council.
Mr. Rodriguez spent his entire life...

Lauren Creiman
News Editor
Recently completed renovations to Leo Hall, which have updated its aesthetics and made it accessible to students with disabilities have also evoked feelings of loss among some faculty.
The facelift included the removal of crumbling tufa stones from the building walls.
“These tufa stones are a part of a 3,000-year-old Armenian history,” George Keeler, professor of journalism...